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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 1066133" data-attributes="member: 13032">IMO both the NBA and the NFL have become mostly young players' leagues (under 30-32).  The Packers will field a very competitive team this year.  If, at the same time, they are the youngest team in the league, I don't much care.  Where experience and depth have been needed (meaning players on their second contract, usually), Gluten has been fearless in pursuing the right guys - the Smiths, Turner, Jacobs, McKinney - and while they have yet to play a down, the acquisition of veterans Banks and Hobbs were just good moves in a relatively weak FA class, based on the Packers' needs.Ty makes a good point that finding young, first-contract elite players in the draft is extremely difficult/rare.  And a good number of later round picks do become elite - Bakhtiari comes to mind.Again, I'm more interested in a GM's ability to field a seriously competitive team.  We don't have much to complain about there.  I have been amazed at the job Gluten has done transitioning from Rodgers.And some of these FAs, who were in weak systems, have excelled in GB.  Anyway, no complaints here.</blockquote>

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